player piano
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The player piano and the phonograph not only introduced recorded music to a mass audience, they also prepared the way for machines to become integrated into musical creation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
The phonograph and the player piano together brought technological musical reproduction into the home in the early 1900s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
Glass does appear briefly, in the form of a Steinway Spirio piano — an instrument that can record sound and touch then reproduce it, like an advanced player piano.
From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2023
A framed photo of Peter Pan soaring across Neverland stands high above his wooden player piano.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2023
Farther in, a player piano was playing something that was intended to have been Ravel’s “Bolero.”
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
